AFK Airport Security

AFK Airport Security: Slot Overview

The popular 90s show 'Seinfeld' was famous for turning ordinary, trivial situations into major sources of conflict and comedy. Rather than relying on dramatic plots or sentimental moments, the show found laughs in the awkwardness, pettiness, and irrationality of everyday life. Taking a page out of the Seinfeld book, software provider Nolimit City has shone a light on what can be one of the most irritating parts of travelling by flight. The studio explores this in the online slot AFK Airport Security, where the pre-flight security check isn't just an uncomfortable formality, but a traumatically invasive procedure, presented as dark comedy embedded amidst absurd scenarios and a feast of features.

The base game takes place during the security check part of flying. Lines of passengers march through metal detectors, while their bags and personal belongings are shunted through the X-ray machine. It's not everyone's favourite part of the journey, but an essential security measure to prevent nefarious people doing nefarious things, and it usually doesn't take too long to gather your belongings, do up your belt, and begin the duty-free gauntlet. That is, unless someone in officialdom has gotten all suspicious and needs a more thorough probe for potentially concealed contraband. That's the fear AFK Airport Security taps into before shovelling passengers onto a plane, depending on ticket level, for free spins. It's all done in a Nolimit City slightly gross humorous angle, rounded off with an F-bomb-laden soundtrack.

AFK Airport Security is played on a 5x3 grid with a feature meter displayed at the top where a multitude of feature symbols appear. By default, there are 243 ways to win, mostly left to right, but occasionally also right to left, and the number of ways increases when symbols are split. The default RTP clocks in at 96.07%, with two lower returns available, and the studio has rated the volatility 8 out of 10 (high). As per usual, betting options abound, while the base stake range is $/€0.20 to $/€100.

The low pay symbols are X-rayed items revealing cuffs, pistols, consumed items, grenades, and skulls, while the highs are five character symbols. Winning combinations of 5 matching lows pay 0.5x-0.6x the bet, or 0.75x-1.5x is awarded for the highs. Wilds substitute for any other symbol in AFK Airport Security except the scatter.

AFK Airport Security: Slot Features

There are 12 features in the game that may randomly activate in any phase of play. When more than one feature activates, they do so in this order.

• Quarantine - 1 or 2 random low-pay symbols do not appear on the reels.
• Full Body Scanner - 1 or 2 low-pay symbols are chosen to be replaced by a random high-pay symbol.
• Not My Bag - 3-6 mystery symbols land to reveal any regular pay symbol. All mystery symbols reveal the same symbol.
• Arm Slides - Any wilds in view expand to fill the entire reel with wilds.
• Class Upgrade - A regular pay symbol is chosen, and all instances on the reels get a multiplier of x3 to x10.
• Extra Seat Space - A regular pay symbol is selected, and all instances are split into 2.
• Full Row Booking - 1-3 reels are selected, and all symbols except scatters on the chosen reels are split into 2.
• Lithium-ion Batteries - 1 or 2 regular pay symbols are replaced by wilds, and all adjacent symbols are split into 2, except scatters.
• Turbulence - All non-winning symbols on the grid are shuffled except scatters.
• 'Random' Security Search - 1-3 regular pay symbols are replaced by wilds.
• Air-mile Multiplier - A win multiplier of x3 to x10 is revealed and applied to all wins.
• Connecting Flights - Winning combinations are paid both ways.

Free Spins

Landing 3 scatters awards 7 Economy Spins, whilst 4 scatters trigger 7 Business Class Spins, or hitting 5 scatters awards 7 First Class Spins. Each free spins game starts with 1, 2 or 3 random features, respectively. Features stay active for the remaining spins. Any additional feature that activates awards +1 spin and also stays active for the rest of the round.

Nolimit Booster & Nolimit Bonus Buys

The Bonus Booster may be activated for 1.4x to guarantee a scatter on the second reel. The 3-Mile High Club costs 12x to guarantee at least 3 features, or the 12-Mile High Club costs 4,500x for all 12 features. From the Nolimit Bonus, players can buy Economy Class Spins, Business Class Spins, First Class Spins, or a lucky draw for 80x, 240x, 500x, or 212x the bet, respectively.

AFK Airport Security: Slot Verdict

Pure conjecture, but AFK Airport Security may have been inspired by someone Nolimit City knows who had a bad experience at the airport, and really, no one wants to start their holiday or business trip off with a cold, ruthless cavity search. Especially when you're totally innocent. Of course, airport security is critical for keeping the masses of air travellers as safe as they can be, a need which trumps personal discomfort, but still. With AFK Airport Security, the studio has taken the mundane horror of airport checkpoints and injected it with its signature brand of dark, borderline-gross humour, channelling the boredom and dread of waiting in line to be checked into a humorous online slot experience.

Also included is a long list of features, a very long one, meaning a lot of different activities can light up the reels. Interestingly, not much about the 14 features found in AFK Airport Security can be called brand new, never-before-seen effects. For sure, they all have their upsides, and as always, the more features triggering simultaneously, the better. As such, the game screams out for large numbers of features blasting onto the grid to fully shine. Not for nothing does the 12-Mile High Club cost a potentially wallet-emptying 4,500x the bet a pop, keeping in mind it does not guarantee sky-high results, either. Free spins emphasise this philosophy, locking in more starting features the higher the class they are, reinforcing the desire to maximise the grid with as many extras as the game will cough up. Fair enough, a chain of features rearranging the grid can be quite exciting, though there is a feeling that technical quality has been sacrificed for sheer quantity.

Overall, AFK Airport Security feels less like refinement or experimentation and more about overload, with the aim of unloading a barrage of extras onto the board in a turbulent maelstrom. Get that to happen, and AFK Airport Security might be quite exciting, and it is able to produce wins up to 19,693x the bet. Add in a drenching of Nolimit City humour, and the action may get manic, but fans of the studio probably shouldn't expect AFK Airport Security to be one of the team's high-flying trailblazers.